It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLELove is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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